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Pamela Anderson’s Iconic Red ‘Baywatch’ Swimsuit Will Be Shown at London’s Design Museum

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Pamela Anderson stared in ‘Baywatch’ in the nineties and drew massive crowds. James Aylott / Getty In its nineties heyday, more than one billion people watched Baywatch each week. Many of these viewers tuned in to marvel at a red swimsuit struggling to contain Pamela Anderson as she ran along a beach in slow motion. …

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Saudi Arabia Puts $52.6 M. Toward Centre Pompidou Overhaul in Deal with France

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The Centre Pompidou in Paris will close its doors from 2025 to 2030 for a major renovation. Photo Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas/AFP, via Getty Images Saudi Arabia will contribute €50 million ($52.6 million) to the €262 million renovation of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The money is part of a heritage fund established as part of …

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40 Museum Shows and Biennials to See This Winter

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Daniela Hritcu/ARTnews Multihyphenates rule this winter, a season headlined by attempts to fully assess artists whose work resists the traditional museum retrospective format. Within Germany alone, Shu Lea Cheang, who has shown her work in movie theaters, on the internet, and in art galleries, will finally get a career-spanning survey, and Semiha Berksoy, a Wagnerian …

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After Alleging Censorship, Nan Goldin Adds Message About Gaza and Israel to Work in Berlin

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Nan Goldin. Photo Fabian Sommer/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Following a widely discussed interview in which she alleged censorship, Nan Goldin has added a message about the people killed in Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank, and during the October 7 Hamas attack, to an artwork on view at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. Goldin and Klaus …

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Jasleen Kaur’s Vintage Car Draped in a Doily Wins This Year’s Turner Prize

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Jasleen Kaur addresses the audience after winning the Turner prize. Hoda Davaine/Dave Benett/Getty I Jasleen Kaur has won the 2024 Turner Prize for her work reflecting her childhood in Glasgow, including a Ford Escort Cabriolet Mk3 draped in a massive doily titled Sociomobile. At 38 years old, Kaur was the youngest contestant on this year’s …

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The Louvre-Lens Reopens its Flagship Galerie du Temps with a Brand-New Rehang 

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Installation shot of the new Galerie du Temps at the Louvre-Lens museum. Manuel Cohen/Courtesy of Louvre-Lens Have you ever heard of, or even been to Lens before? This small coal town in northern France was active from 1849 to 1986, when its last mine was shut down. Then, in 2012, after the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin …

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West Palm Beach Black History Museum Project Receives $500,000 Grant

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Site of defunct Roosevelt High in Palm Beach County. via Google Maps. A $500,000 investment from the Quantum Foundation, a Florida-based non-profit, is boosting plans for Palm Beach County to build a Black history museum and research center at a former high school that has historic links to segregation. The project is aiming at revamping …

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Paintings and Sculptures Confiscated from the Mafia by Italian Police Are Being Exhibited in Milan

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“Tekening” by Belgian artist Jan Van Oost is one of the confiscated artworks on show. AFP via Getty Images When mafiosas aren’t drug trafficking or money laundering, it turns out some of them are busy collecting (stealing) valuable artwork. Eighty works, confiscated by the Italian authorities, went on show at Milan‘s Palazzo Reale this week. …

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